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Thursday, November 11, 2021
Congratulations to the Algonquian Linguistic Atlas project team on the recent release of a suite of conversation apps to support the teaching and learning of Algonquian languages: Dr. Marie Odile Junker (Project Director) Claire Owen (Assistant Project Director) Delasie Torkornoo (Technical Director) Officially launched October 14th at the 53rd... More
Monday, October 25, 2021
SLaLS faculty member Dr.Rachelle Vessey gave an invited talk on language ideology and corpus linguistics in the series "Corpus linguistics and applied linguistics research" (University of Murcia, Spain). She also presented new research about Canadian Chief Medical Officer's public health advice at the "Language of COVID-19 Conference" (University... More
Thursday, May 6, 2021
We note with great sadness, the passing of Janice Yalden, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Carleton, founding Director of Carleton's Centre for Applied Language Studies, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts during the 80's and 90's. Professor Yalden spent many years at Carleton as a researcher, teacher, and... More
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Join professor Erik Anonby and family in this BBC travelogue as they spend a year experiencing life, language, and culture amongst the people of Kuzmar, a small village on Oman's north... More
Monday, April 12, 2021
If you're wondering what action adventure games, air traffic control, and saying no in customer service have in common, you clearly weren't at the first virtual grad student symposium held 26 March, 2021 in BrightSpace. The event opened with a welcome message from School Director, Dr. David Wood, and the presentation of the annual... More
Thursday, April 1, 2021
While many of us were hibernating, others were completing their graduate degrees in ALDS! Congratulations to Hesam Farahani, Megan Ouellette and Fazal Ahmad on completing their MA degrees and to Nina Dore on completing her... More
Friday, March 26, 2021
Congratulations to Osama Elbeyaly, this year’s winner of the Lynne Young ALDS Graduate Award. “I have always been interested in language, how people use it to express themselves in various social situations, and how it can be used to affect people’s decisions/beliefs, etc... My interest in Applied Linguistics and Discourse studies was... More
Saturday, March 20, 2021
SALaDS first virtual edition of the graduate student symposium will take place on Friday, March 26, 2021, 3:00-5:00 PM EST. Schedule: 3:05-3:15: Opening Remarks (David Wood) 3:15-3:30: Presentation of the Lynne Young Award (Trudy O'Brien) 3:30-3:35: Quick Instructions 3:40-4:00: Session 1 - Kathryn, Jean, Neil 4:05-4:25: Session 2 - Osama,... More
Friday, March 19, 2021
Throughout this one hundred- and thirty-year (and counting) pursuit of sovereignty, instituting linguistic rights has been considered as a crucial step towards their legitimacy and independence. And while the Kurdish language has held some legal standing in Iraq since the 1930s, prior to 2013, Kurdish had no official status in Iran, Turkey, or... More
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
MA students in Dr. Eva Kartchava's special topics course on Corrective Feedback (ALDS 5905) have completed a podcasting assignment in which they interviewed prominent scholars in the field. Podcast episodes were created in collaboration with Teacher Talking Time (TTT), part of the “Learn YOUR English” initiative established and run by three... More
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Graham Smart and Matthew Falconer recently published an open-access chapter called "Genre, uptake, and the recontextualization of climate change science by 'denialist' cultural communities". In the chapter, Smart and Falconer look at the ways that three denialist cultural communities – the Cornwall Alliance, the Heartland Institute, and the Tea... More
Monday, February 1, 2021
At the end of 2020, Julian was pleased to see that his first publication entitled, "Levelling up comprehensible input and vocabulary learning: The lexical profile of videogames" appear in the new edited volume, Pop Culture in Language Education: Theory, Research, Practice. The chapter represents the background work that allowed him to complete his... More
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